GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...........

For the past one week I had been very excited because I was finally going home to my family....my itinerary was well mapped out and i was checking out from Charles De Gaulle airport on the 31st of january, which is today......Saturday night i took the night train from Perpignan as planned. I was one hour early even though the train station was just a stone throw from where i was staying.......... The train was a train with beds and cabins, i got to my cabin, quickly choose my bed, arranged my stuff, excited that i was going to see my "baby" after a long while.....ten minutes later my journey began and i was floating in cloud nine thinking of all the goodies waiting for me...... As we commenced our journey we stopped at different stations to pick passengers, some of them being my temporary roommate...... One of my temporary roommate was an interesting lady, a mother of two maybe in her early fifties.......Immedaiately he got into the cabin she started talking, she told me a little about her family and her career. We talked for a while till it was time to go to bed. By 6.30 a.m. i was awake, waiting earnestly for the announcement saying that we had gotten to Paris, when the train conductor suddenly announced that he was sorry but the train was delayed by 2 hours......... 2hours...that meant i had missed my flight......

Confused and upset i started crying..........i was asking God what i was going to do?.....i was nervous, frustrated and above all stranded in a strange land with no family............my friend in the train told me to calm down....how was i to calm down i just had money for a taxi to the airport and that was it. Missing my flight meant i was obligated to sleep in a hotel in Paris, change my booking which was extra money and to crown it all banks weren't open, so no body could pay money into my account..............

In the midst of my confusion God worked "this french lady who i had just meet, who didn't even believe in God, but in some chinese religion, who was just feeding from hand to month gave me 50 euros.....

Now you have to understand that for the average person here 50 euro is one week's salary......I told her that i would pay, she just told me to take it, add to what i have and sort myself out.......

Her gesture thought me this that God can use anybody be it a witch, a native doctor, a christian, a thief, whoever to achieve the purpose he Has for His children.........

He really works in mysterious ways trust me : " God will never forsake you, just always trust in Him and never let go"

Ca va tout le monde?

whats up Lilies? i guess we are all working towards achieving our goals this year. Like my good friend just said this month is fast ending, and that's how this year is going to be......its time to start making it, and working towards your achievements, no procrastination allowed.

Anyway, its so funny how much you learn when you travel and your in you find yourself with different people, different believes and faith. Yesterday i meet for the first time in my life a colombian, very funny little girl, just 18 and she has crossed the world to come and achieve her dreams...... i thought to myself: what was i thinking of when i was her age...... i never thought of traveling or living my "so called life of security"... i was still maybe sucking my mothers breast.....lol....... traveling wasn't in my agenda, i just wanted to go to university, get a degree and after that work, marry, have kids and retire when i am 60.........i had this mentality for a while and i felt it was the best... but i realized that God has made all of us in his own image, with dreams and talents imbedded in us. These dreams and talents are usually supressed maybe because of our religion, our native beliefs........

I have learnt that God is not like that, God wants us as women to have dreams and achieve them...... i was asked this question how can a woman have a career and a family at the same time? honestly its almost impossible, but i have realized that being created in God's imagine, makes us superwomen..... and women everywhere have the ability to be multitasking.........think about it....... you can do all things........

notez bien: " marriage is not the end of your dream, instead its the beginning".....

take care of yourself and we will chat later........

p.s..... have a fantastic weekend and please try something extraordinary this weekend.......

Ca va?/How are you?

Hello Secret lilies how are you? Its been a while. I missed you all. How was your weekend, i hope exciting cos mine was fantastic although very cold. Anyway it was okay and i thank God for everything...........In my one week of being in france, going to class and meeting new people from different parts of the world with different ideologies and believes, i have come to observe that a lot of our youths no longer know God. In fact they have been so indoctrinated that it's had to find a believing youth now a days. Even in Nigeria, every sunday we go to church, we go for weekly activites, some of us are even workers but a lot of us don't know God. We don't have a personal relationship with Him. We accuse the Europeans, the Americans the Asians that they don't know God but we forget that we have a lot of religious people in our midst. They say " that nigerians are the most religious people on earth". One cannot be a christian without having a relationship with God....an intimate one.... every morning i try my best to talk to God and i try to listen..... when i listen and am still and not distracted i hear him. My question is how can one feel that one it doing the right thing? The way the world is now it's like being a confessing Christ is a werid thing. I ask my self how is it possible to bring up your child in an environment that doesn't regard God?....How will the child be able to defend his/her believe in Jesus Christ? In my search and question i realize that God is everywhere if you just look for Him. He is always there to help you, when life seems though or in spite of persecution.........Even though i may look stupid in class for being a christian or a child of God, i know that no matter what i must stand for the truth and nothing else. I must represent Christ everywhere i go and nothing else. Its not easy but with God all things are possible........

All the things happening in the world shows that devil is fighting seriously the righteous......but as is my motto ......with God all things are possible.......and i can make it in this world through Christ that strengthens me...

Dedication: " to all who feel discouraged at times,or life is difficult as a christian, don't worry most at times in His silence He answers and God will never leave you stranded He is always there..........

Take care and confess Christ to someone this week........

Happy New Year/ Bonne Annee

Hello lilies its been a while, oh don't fault me... been so busy during the festive period. My house was so full. Everybody came to my house for the holidays, from my little cousins to my brother to my aunty to my brother in law....the list goes on and on....but despite the crowd I enjoyed the company.........After all the dinning and partying January 1, 2010 has finally come. Its a year of new beginning, new dreams, goals........... this year much as we write down our goals we should make sure we accomplish every one of them...........now let me gist you a little about whats happening to me......

After all the hassle and bustle of the christmas break, I decided to take a break, so i went to France. 1. to practice the french language 2. to have a feel of the french culture. 3. to rest.

Yesterday 3/1/2010, at 5.30am i arrived Charles de Gaulle airport,Paris. i was a little nervous about the immigrations because of what that Nigerian almost did.......i am sure everybody knows what am talking about...........First of all we weren't given any landing cards......secondly when i got to the immigrations.....the guy just asked me this: vous allez ou? (where are you going) i told him, he just stamped my passport and told me to go.........you can imagine my joy.......

What struck me as soon as i got into Paris was the cold...... trust me its so cold out here which got me thinking : Nigeria is very blest. Our weather alone is the best thing God gave us......i now understand why they drink a lot of tea or coffee in films, its because of the weather. I have been here for just a day and i cannot count how many times i have taken either tea or coffee.

I asked myself why can't nigeria be like the developed countries? We have everything....if you ask me winter is a curse.... but the whites have turned this curse into a blessing while we turned our blessing into a curse.........in Nigeria we have everything, but yet we are one of the poorest nations in the world.......God please help Nigeria...............

For Nigeria to change we each have to change. if you want something changed you have to change yourself....start by obeying the law, obey the traffic lights, do not litter, don't use the phone while driving, use your set belts.......

Notez Bien: little things are the things that make the change in a relationship, family, society and country................... start now change yourself......Start now to pray for Nigeria.....i am positive that we will change for the better one day..... above all I can't wait to come home.

Take care of yourself and hopefully we will talk later......